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In Brief

Japan Recalls Its South Korean Envoys Over “Comfort Women” Sculpture

An ongoing dispute over a statue commemorating South Korean victims of the Japanese imperial army's sex slavery has escalated, with Japan summoning its ambassador and a consul general back to Tokyo.

Art

Learning from Decolonize This Place

Artists and activists involved in the Decolonize This Place residency at Artists Space reflect on its successes and how they can be models for future actions.

In Brief

A Protest Monument to Victims of Sex Slavery May Become Permanent

Municipal officials in Busan returned a statue it had originally confiscated after protesters erected it next to the Japanese consulate as a tribute to the thousands of Korean women forced into Japanese military brothels.

Opinion

Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Protest

Public witness can’t really be found in a shout or an insult. It can only be found when we witness an openness between people.

News

Artists Join the Fight to Protect Standing Rock

In North Dakota and beyond, Native American artists and their allies are creating work in support of the water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

News

#DecolonizeThisPlace Demands Removal of Natural History Museum’s Roosevelt Statue [UPDATED]

Over 200 people took part in the Decolonize This Place tour of the American Museum of Natural History, and joined the rally outside the museum to remove the controversial Roosevelt statue.

News

Anti-BP Protesters Release Pirates, Merpeople, and the Kraken at the British Museum

LONDON — The irony of oil company BP sponsoring the British Museum’s current exhibition Sunken Cities will have been lost on few.

News

Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline May Have Bulldozed Indigenous History

Last Friday, Tim Mentz, Sr., former Standing Rock Sioux tribal historic preservation officer, filed a declaration with the US district court detailing archaeological sites, including graves, alongside the planned pathway of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

News

Protesters Demand “Where Is Ana Mendieta?” in Tate Modern Expansion

LONDON — Posters all around London advertising Tate Modern’s new building proudly proclaim: “Art Changes. We Change.”

News

Greenpeace Activists Climb the British Museum to Protest BP Sponsorship

Today, the British Museum received a guerrilla re-branding from activists urging it to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, an agreement now in talks for possible renewal next year.

News

Treatment of Adjuncts Spurs Protests at Pacific Northwest College of Art

Students and teachers at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, protested on campus this week, demanding that adjunct professors be rehired with contracts after some of the college's most influential educators were unceremoniously left out of next semester's class schedule.

News

Paris's Art Models Protest for Job Security and Better Wages

PARIS — On Saturday afternoon, people trickled across the large plaza in front of the Hôtel de Ville.